A Third Break
Steve talks about a sabbatical as an amazing corporate benefit and is planning his third.
Experimenting with Go-SQLCMD
Steve takes a look at go-sqlcmd, the newest evolution of the sqlcmd command line tool.
Extract SharePoint List Data and save to SharePoint Folder as CSV using Power Automate
Sometimes you might have your data within a SharePoint list, and you would prefer this dataset to be within a SharePoint folder instead for reasons like reporting in Power BI or Excel. You need to be able to move the data automatically from the SharePoint list to the SharePoint folder.
SQL Prompt Safety Net Features for SSMS: Tab Coloring
The Tab Coloring component of SQL Prompt’s SSMS Tab management could save you from accidentally doing something apocalyptic on a production server, ever again.
Data Modeling Information
Data modeling can be challenging for many reasons. Steve talks about the choices you make in how you store data should be a part of that.
Firebase and Supabase: Key differences you need to know
Firebase is a NoSQL database, while Supabase is a relational database. The type of software you’re constructing determines which database is best for your project.
PASS Data Community Summit registrations are open!
In 2023, connect, share & learn with like-minded peers, speakers, and industry leaders during the full week of data celebrations. Summit happens in person, from November 14th to 17th in Seattle. Check out the blog post to learn more.
Coming Out of the Cloud
Google announced a local version of their cloud databases that companies can install for developers.
Create an Empty Database Using SQL Server Integration Services
Learn how to create a copy of an existing database without any data using Integration Services.
SQL Prompt Safety Net Features for SSMS: SQL History
Mistakes occasionally happen. Occasionally, you make some ill-judged 'refinements' to working code and now just wish you could rewind your tab back in time an hour and forget the whole sorry episode. Now and again, SSMS just conspires against you and crashes unexpectedly, and you lose all your currently open query tabs, some of which you hadn't saved. SQL History offers a useful safety net in the event of any of these unfortunate events.
Blogs
Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
By HeyMo0sh
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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